Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Los Alamos physicist: Is there energy for all in the 21st century? /
Review of Tertzakian’s “A Thousand Barrels A Second” /
oGE – a Portuguese peak oil website /
Rep. Bartlett and OilCrash /
Washington DC Petrocollapse conference May 6 /
Dublin April 19-23: ‘Learning to Live With Less Fossil Fuel’ /
India: Time for Plan B for energy security?
Last month’s foiled attack on a Saudi Arabian oil installation demonstrated yet again the world’s extreme vulnerability to any check on oil supplies. But what if the Saudi oilfields are running lower on untapped supplies than the kingdom, and the West, have estimated?
Royal Society energy conference in London April 10-11 /
Gallup: Public sees alternative fuels as wave of future /
Oil majors plan to spend more as costs soar /
Russia signs gas deal with China /
Friedman: some conservatives have a new grip on [energy] reality
Today’s Paul Reveres of “peak oil” aren’t waiting for Washington to save us from apocalypse. They’re already planting gardens and drafting city plans for the days when oil is gone. [Favorable article on the peak oil movement.]
A round-up of recent articles.
While it would be difficult to create an airtight legal case for impeaching George W. Bush based on his ignoring the very real threat posed by Peak Oil, nevertheless I believe that his actions—and inaction—in this regard constitute dereliction of duty on an unprecedented scale.
We need science-based solutions that can be retrofitted into our existing energy chain. We must continually seek to increase the efficiency of converting energy into heat and power. And we must somehow get our respective governments to get serious about a program of international energy research and development
Speech by the British Ambassador to the United States. He concludes: “energy is central to our foreign policy because it is central to national security. Wherever we look, problems are energy driven. The imperative to collaborate may now be as strong as that which forced us to build collective security structures during the Cold War…This is not a problem that can wait ten years.”
Elizabeth Kolbert: Chilling (global warming and irresponsibility) /
Rewriting the science (NASA’s Hansen and censorship) /
Chilling proof that glacier meltdown is getting faster /
Changing climate threatening development
In a dramatic turn-around from last year’s meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland, G8 leaders have set their sights
on expanding access to fossil fuels and nuclear energy. Last year, G8 leaders focused on mitigating the
impacts of climate change and canceling debt.
Northern ozone pollution spurs Arctic warming: NASA /
Evidence of the warming West is everywhere /
States calculate global warming pricetag /
Mike Davis: “Planet of Slums” /
Ice retreats in Arctic for 2nd year; will it vanish? /
Elizabeth’s Kolbert’s book on climate change /
Will climate change worsen infectious diseases? /
CU-Boulder’s Roger Pielke on the rising cost of natural disasters
Survey: 3/4 Americans fault federal leadership, back state & local efforts /
Poll: Most Americans fear vulnerability of oil /
Pew report: Both Reds and Blues go green on energy /
Pew Poll: Curing an oil addiction
